Why would Obama say this?
By 2004cqui
@2004cqui (2812)
United States
April 3, 2012 4:48pm CST
"Reagan could not survive in 'radical' GOP." Or did he? I didn't see him say it and the "news" isn't the news. If he did say it why would he? Wouldn't you focus on the work your party is doing or trying to do to restore the economy? Show the focus of your party? Doesn't bashing the other party just waste time we don't have? Something tells me something is trying to distract us from something else that's going on! It's the only logical thing I can think of:
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20120403/US.Obama/?cid=hero_media
What do you think!
4 responses
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
4 Apr 12
I'm not old enough to really remember how other presidents used to campaign. I don't remember Bush continuously beating down the other side. What I remember most about him is that he was continuously beat up in the press but never really responded.
This president doesn't let anything go to waste. He's in constant campaign mode. He's habitually making a speech somewhere, pushing a very vague vision where you're not really sure what he wants; you only know what he doesn't want -- e.g. anything the Republicans want.
Things like "fair share" and other talking points, while the White House speaks as if those two words are incredibly detailed, are really just confusing. And now asserting someone else is "radical" is just more hogwash aimed to separate people by another standard. So far, Obama's managed to drive a wedge in class, race and ideology. All from just his inability to close his mouth! He has to be out there jabberin' the jaws.
Obama's proposed budget was so horrifically out of touch that when it was drafted up, it didn't even get a single vote. They spin that to be symbolic or something. I don't know. FU and the spin you rode in on is what I say.
The only thing I know to a degree of certainty is that Obama has ran a very compelling campaign against everyone who opposes him since 2008. He has yet to relent. And even amongst his supporters, if you asked them what he really wants and what his vision really is, you would get 12 different answers from 10 different people.
So when he brings up Reagan and paints today's GOP as too radical to compromise, I just roll my eyes again and go on about my day.
As far as a Talker-in-Chief goes, President Barack Obama is the best we have ever had.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
4 Apr 12
My opinion is he has some real serious money behind him and they tell him what to say, when to say it, and how to say it. (thats why when he's without a teleprompter there's a lot of ummms and ahhh's)
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32533
Black Muslim lawyer Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour recently made news when it was revealed that he was a patron of Barack Obama and recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School in 1988.
Back in the 1960s, al-Mansour, whose “slave name” was then Don Warden, was deeply involved in Bay Area racial politics as founder of a group called the African American Association. A close personal adviser to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, al-Mansour helped the pair establish the Black Panther Party but later broke with them when they entered coalitions with white radical groups. After becoming a Muslim, al-Mansour found not only an ideological justification for his racism but also a political purpose. That was, in the words of a memorandum produced by the Muslim Brotherhood and seized by the FBI as part of its probe of the Holy Land Foundation, to “eliminate and destroy the Western civilization from within.” Many black racists like al-Mansour are key figures in this “stealth” jihad, whose prime recruiting grounds are the U.S. prisons and mosques where inmates and worshippers alike are taught to embrace a radical Islam engaged in an apocalyptic battle against America.
The article goes on to state that Kalid is the lawyer to the Saudis and has access to their billions. But the current DOJ does favor the Black Panthers a bit to much, when they stand at polling places with night sticks and when the put bounties out on yet to be tried in court citizens.
Now, do I know for sure Kalid and the Saudi billions fund Obama? No. But the trail between Obama and lots of radicals like Kalid has been exposed and ignored. Money makes people quiet you see, if the press in the 70s had gotten wind of something like this, he'd have been toast before 2008. IF a Republican were to have those kind of (even tenuous) ties to Saudi billions, he be crucified by the press....oh wait, there was one, Bush. But Obama gets a pass, that takes some serious money. And Obama just may have access to it.
@2004cqui (2812)
• United States
4 Apr 12
Wow- you're good at this! The only truth about life is "suspect everything". Listen to everything and never think your decision is the only right one! Boy, life is hard. What's worse is my boys are all at the phase where they don't discuss, they're just right! Augggghhhh!!!!!!
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
5 Apr 12
I get so sick and tired of all the bashing....and I think our great leaders have forgotten that they should work together to try to solve our problems instead of all this crap that goes on......how about that? Actually working together instead of it being a bully fest!
@Citizen_Stuart (2016)
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3 Apr 12
I haven't heard the quote in question, I don't pay close attention to US political campaigns, but it does sound to me like a fairly standard political tactic to try to demoralise opposition activists. The theory being that if he can plant the idea that the Republican Party isn't what it was when Reagan was Prez, the street level activists will be less inclined to do the leafletting, canvassing etc that's necessary for a successful campaign.
@honest_efforts100 (1607)
• India
18 Jul 12
Politics can waste a lot of time. On the other hand some activities carried out internally in political parties also calls for scrutiny. Obama had his reasons. I can also agree that focussing on your own party is more health and will allow the party to meet its economically related objectives.
